RUSS 002: Beginning Russian, Second Semester, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Spring 2004~Special strengths: organization, rapport with students, enthusiastic approach to teaching. Biljana's students are unusually engaged in the process of learning - they act as if mastering Russian really matters to them.

RUSS 001: Beginning Russian, First Semester, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Fall 2003 ~Special strengths: rapport with students, preparation, pacing - these are great! Covered a lot of material. Great introductions to ideas! She used every minute effectively. ~Special strengths: Biljana is a dynamic teacher liked by her students.

LING/SLAV 75: Languages and Nationalism, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Fall 2002~I was impressed by the instructor's mastery of the material, as well as the energy and enthusiasm with which she imparted it. The students clearly respond well to the atmosphere of active intellectual engagement that has been established in the course. ~...Biljana impressed me in this session as a well-prepared, energetic, intelligent, and technologically savvy instructor who pays keen attention to her students, maintains good eye contact, and rarely falters in her delivery of information. With admirable self-confidence for a new TF [teaching fellow], she primarily positioned herself in front of the podium during the lecture. ... Biljana fielded substantive questions very well (one student, for example, queried her about the effects of pan-Slavism in the Yugoslav region) and she regularly asked her students if they had questions about what she had just presented.